Cayman awards travel grants to help women researchers attend conferences to benefit from and contribute to the larger scientific community. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, most conferences have been canceled or postponed and many academic labs to close, Cayman has started a new program to help support women in research. Their new program awards the grant amount of $1,000 to each recipient, with funds to be used towards research instead of travel. Forty women will benefit from Cayman’s Women in Research program this year. Cayman worked with the Cayman Biomedical Research Institute (CABRI) to fund these extra awards.
“We planned to award five well-qualified applicants,” said Dr. Kirk Maxey, President, and CEO of Cayman. “But the applicant pool was so impressive, we extended the award to forty women who are working to answer essential research questions. Reviewing the value of the contributions these women are making to scientific discovery has made us optimistic for overcoming the many challenges facing human health and disease.”
2020 Women in Research Grant Recipients
Adela Cota-Gomez, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
Ana-Maria Raicu, Michigan State University, USA
Annelies Cannaert, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Antonia Rotolo, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Aurélie de Rus Jacquet, PhD, Laval University, Canada
Caitlyn Norman, University of Dundee, UK
Carla Madelaire, PhD, Northern Arizona University, USA
Carley Lowe, Northern Arizona University, USA
Carmen De Miguel, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Chang Jiang, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Christine Arbour, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Diane McConnell, DVM, PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Eline Pottie, Ghent University, Belgium
Elizabeth Delorme-Axford, PhD, Oakland University, USA
Friederike Pohlin, PhD, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
Georgina Fabro, PhD, National University of Córdoba, Argentina
Harriet Allan, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Jennifer Speth, PhD, University of Michigan, USA
Jiska van der Reest, PhD, Harvard Medical School, USA
Kara Rood, MD, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, USA
Laila Ziko, PhD, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Laura Torrente Fernandez, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Luiza Oliveira Perucci, PhD, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil
Marcella Sharma, Wayne State University, USA
Margaret Nolan, PhD, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Maria Fedorova, PhD, Leipzig University, Germany
Marthe Vandeputte, Ghent University, Belgium
Merran Dunford, University of Bath, UK
Nerea Alonso, PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Nona Ehyaei, Michigan State University, USA
Paloma Gonzalez Sanchez, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Renata Whitton, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Samanta Funes, PhD, National University of San Luis, Argentina
Shea Sickles, University of Kentucky, USA
Stefanie U. Wetzels, PhD, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
Stefanny Titon , PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Swati Venkat, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA
Swetha Gowrishankar, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Tina Sumpter, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Tinna Traustadóttir, PhD, Northern Arizona University, USA